Garter buckle



A. PUGNIET GARTER BUCKLE Dec. 15, 1931.

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Patented Dec. 15, 1931 UNITED STATES ANDREE PUGNIET, OF PARIS, FRANCEGARTER BUG KLE Application filed April 22, 1929, Serial No. 357,221, andin France May 1, 1928;

It is known in the art that buckles of metal rapidly wear the stockings.

In order to overcome this disadvantage, such buckles have been coveredwith fabrics 6 and rubber and likewise flexible buckles of rubber ortwisted material have been made.

The disadvantage of such buckles resides in the fact that they becomedamaged very rapidly as concerns the fabric or rubber and 10 do notoffer suflicient resistance.

Buckles have likewise beenmade of plastic materials and semi-rigidmaterials, said material being more suitable to the preservation of thestocking, but buckles cut from a sheet are of a single piece and arevery breakable. Furthermore such a way of manufacturing is burdensomeand produces a large waste of raw material.

The present invention has for its object a buckle of the type indicatedfor garters which overcomes the aforementioned disadvantages andconstitutes a new industrial product. My method of manufacture consistsessentially in forming the so-called buckle of a bent rod of plasticmaterial, said rod being connected to and fixed upon a metallic support,destined to receive the elastic fabric as well as the button-carryingstrap, by suitable means. My method allows producing an articleconstituted partly of plastic material and partly of metal, whichpresents considerable advantage over similar buckles entirely of metaland obtaining in equality of weight a buckle of larger transversesection. The increase in section of the button cover of plastic materialresulting diminishes consequently the risks of tearing, the surfaces ofcontact with the stocking being larger. Another feature of the inventionconsists in reinforcing the rod by means of a metallic core in a waythat the deformations to which the plastic material is subjected cannotbecome sufiiciently great to endanger rupture.

The said reinforcing likewise prevents the buckle from becoming deformedpermanently. In this end the rod can be perforated by an axial channelof suitable section, into which is introduced before shaping, the

5o thread-shaped reinforcing of flexible metal;

1 may likewise establish in a single opera- 7 part a thereof in whichthe tion by means of a suitable filling machine, the covering of themetallic core by the plastic material, which eliminates the threading ofthe said reinforcing therein. The buckle is then formed while hot to thedesired shape.

In the drawings given by way of exa1nple- Fig. 1 is a View of the bentrod of plastic material adapted to form the buckle, the metallic corebeing shown in dotted lines;

Fig. 2 is a rear view of the rod connected to a metallic mounting;

Fig. 3 is a transverse section of Fig. 2; and Fig. 4 is an assembly Viewof the buckle and the button carrying strap. 6.?

As hereinbefore indicated the essential feature of the garter buckleforming the object of my invention resides in the fact that the securingbutton is to be engaged, is composed of a tube of 7H plastic materialwhich is carried by the metallic mounting b. Said tube a is formed whenhot and its shape is definitely fixed by cooling as in the art ofmoulding plastic materials. Said tube a is subsequently, by suit- 7 ablemeans connected to the metallic support I). It may be reinforced bymeans of a metallic core.

By way of example, the support 25 may include during stamping the lugsc, said lugs being bent over in a manner as to bite into the upper partof the tube a of plastic ma terial. The metallic support I) is joined tothe carrier d by an assembling roller 9 upon which is attached thebutton strap 6 carrying 35 the button My method, above disclosed reducesto a minimum, and without cutting waste the use of a plastic material,the parts in contact with the stocking being of this material only. 99

The connection of the metallic support cl with the button receiving loopa of plastic material, reinforces said loop, limits the necessaryelasticity thereof and eliminates sliding of the stocking which isstrongly held without deterioration.

Having described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent is:

A garter fastener of the type described, 100

including a button-receiving loop formed from a bent tube of rigidplastic material having a central reinforcing Wire rendered integraltherewith by the process of manufacture, a stamped up sheet metalsupport shaped to fit one end of said button-receiving loop, a pluralityof lugs integral With said support extending around the said end of thebutton-receiving loop and coming into gripping relationship with thetubular rigid plastic material surrounding the reinforcing Wire, andmeans for connecting the stamped up metallic support to the garter, forthe purposes set forth.

In testimony whereof I hereunto afiix my signature.

ANDREE PUGNIET.

